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Missing the forest for the daily grind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... will only exacerbate fears that the banks, if not the government, will need a bailout." And in the Australian Financial Review, "Italy has slashed its 2012 economic growth outlook to minus 1.2 per cent from minus 0.4 per cent and said it will miss a ...

No greed, no fear, no volume

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
... started - on the up. But the same as it was during the down days, volume was anorexic. According to the Australian Financial Review, "About 5.9 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Amex and Nasdaq, the second-lowest volume for any ...

No fear no greed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... Commodities Decline on China Concern" -Bloomberg "Chinese growth concerns drag equities, $A lower" -Australian Financial Review "Investors Should Be Getting Out' of Stocks" -Bloomberg TV These were the Chicken Little headlines that cooked Wall Street's ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... STOCKS-S&P 500 posts highest close in nearly four years" (Reuters) "S&P 500 closes near four-year high" (Australian Financial Review) These headlines were referring to 5 June 2008 - a little over three months before Lehman Bros called it quits on 15 ...

Finsia award nominees announced

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... Management, Claire Payne, St. James Ethics Centre, Janine Starks, Liontamer Investments and Trevor Sykes, ex Australian Financial Review and author. "These are financial services professionals who have demonstrated exceptional originality, innovation ...

Super funds want a cost-benefit analysis on disclosure

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... confidence and risk management is good, but was not sure whether total disclosure would improve risk management. The Financial Review reported that ASIC had conducted a secret review of up to 30 super funds and found them lacking in disclosure. Funds ...

Higher US interest rates possible on downgrade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... unexpected effects. Treasuries are widely held as collateral in clearing houses for financial derivatives, the Financial Review reports. A drop in prices could cause clearing houses to ask participants to put up more collateral, potentially causing a ...

Financial Planners want level playing field on commissions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... broking firms to promote their new shares to clients based on a percentage of the amount of stock bought, the Financial Review has reported. But Mark Rantall, chief executive of the Financial Planning Association told Financial Standard that if commissions ...

Property up, interest rate rises: BIS Shrapnel

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... interest rate rises that could push mortgage rates up to 9.4 per cent by 2014. A survey of 24 economists by the Financial Review found that all of them expected Australia's gross domestic product to rise forcing the Reserve Bank to lift interest rate ...

Industry funds, independent platforms stand up for FOFA reforms

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... it self-serving. In the latest chapter, AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk wrote an open letter to the Financial Review calling the opposition to the axing of volume rebates and opt-in arrangements a desperate rearguard action that exposed the ...